"Any of her female relations might have," Sophia said gently.

The attack, an oblique one, had come from one of Peter's female relations.

They were a convenient retreat for men who wished to get away from female relations.

Because Monk wouldn't believe that she was merely one of my more attractive female relations.

Haven't you an older female relation here in town?

He had worked for me long enough to know I wasn't the kind of catch you'd want your female relations stuck with.

Serious shopping with a crowd of one's female relations was delightful but exhausting.

Please tell Bedivere a certain female relation wondered when her fair cousin would come home.

"But as it happens, I am a man unencumbered by female relations at present," he said more softly.

He would rather spend his time reading or writing poetry and playing with his numerous female relations.